Musician Nguyen Cuong spent 40 years to do something special.

The capital's audience has the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Central Highlands' cultural and artistic space with the music and folk art program The Call of the Highlands and the musical play Dam San's Aspiration performed by the Dak Lak Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe.

These are activities organized by the Department of Culture and Sports of Dak Lak province in coordination with the Department of Culture and Sports of Hanoi to promote Central Highlands culture and art in Hanoi.

Mr. Tran Hong Tien, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dak Lak province spoke at the press conference.  

Mr. Tran Hong Tien - Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dak Lak province said that the program "Call of the Highlands" will take place on the evening of April 12 at the flower garden stage of Ba Kieu temple, Hanoi.

"With performances of gongs, traditional musical instruments, and songs about the Central Highlands, the program will introduce to the audience of the capital the characteristics as well as the diverse and rich traditional cultural values ​​of the Central Highlands. In particular, the program will introduce to the audience of the capital the cultural space of the Central Highlands Gongs, which has been recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ," said Mr. Tien.

Musician Nguyen Cuong.

On the evening of April 13, the musical play Dam San's Aspiration (author - musician Nguyen Cuong) will be performed at the Workers' Theater.

Musician Nguyen said that the musical Khat Vong Dam San was staged based on the epic Dam San - one of the typical works, a literary genre created from the rich, romantic, and soaring imagination of the Ede people in the Central Highlands in ancient times. It took him 40 years to bring the epic about Dam San to the stage in the form of a musical.

According to musician Nguyen Cuong, compared to the 8 chapters of the epic poem The Song of Dam San , the opera Khat Vong Dam San is shortened in structure and has many creative points, even completely opposite to the original.

Writer Hong Hoa, screenwriter of Dam San's Desire, explained: "We did not adapt the epic poem The Song of Dam San . We only relied on the original and emphasized the tragic and heroic qualities of Dam San. I wanted Dam San to go find the Sun Goddess for the sake of the village and return for the sake of the village."

Therefore, screenwriter Hong Hoa wrote the script for Dam San's Desire with new details, praising the beauty of human love in harmony with nature, especially praising the aspirations and romantic yet heroic beauty of the Ede people in the Central Highlands.

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